Game board



T. MAHER.

GAME BOARD. APPLICATION mep F.24. 1919.

Patented May 16, 1922.

THOMAS MAX-IER, 0F MOUNT CLEMENS, MICHIGAN.

GAME BOARD.

Specicaton of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1922.

Application filed February 24,1919. Serial No. 278,666.

To all whom. t may concern:

Be it known that l, THOMAS MAKER, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, residing at Mount Clemens, in the county of Macomb and State ofMichigan, have in* vented certain new and useful Improvements in GameBoards, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawings.

rl"his invention relates to an improved game board of the type known aspool tables, and its object is to improve and amplify the game of poolby combining with a pool table certain structural features and withkthese and other ends in view the invention consists in the mattershereinafter set forth and more particularly pointed out in the appendedclaim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings in which- Figurel is a plan view of a game board embodying features of the invention;and

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section of the same substantially uponthe line X-X of Fig. l.

As shown in the drawings l indicates a board or table similar to a pooltable having a wall or cushion 2 along its four marginal edges andopenings 3 at each corner and intermediate t-he ends at each side.Pockets 4 are provided at the several openings 3 to lreceive the balls 5and 6 which are played upon the plane field of the board or table in theusual manner, of plz ying pool. At one end of, the board a plurality ofnumbered held pockets or holes 7 are formed therein, these field pocketsbeing arranged in a plurality of transverse rows with the pockets of onerow in staggered relation to those of adjacent rows. The marginal wall 8of each field pocket or hole 4 is inclined inwardly from the surface ofthe board toward the bottom of the pocket so that the balls will rollout of the pockets readily.

ln playing the game, the object balls 5 which are all numbered, arefirst racked in the usual manner near the end of the table opposite thatat which the holes 7 are located. The player then breaks in the usualmanner of playing pool by means of the cue ball 6 and those object ballswhich fall into the field pockets 7, count for the player. rlhe objectballs which remain on the table are live balls and may be driven intothe field pockets by the next player. As the object balls are allnumbered and also the eld pockets, an object ball played into a fieldpocket counts the player according to the number on the ball and the:field pocket into which it is played, this being governed by the rulesof the game.

If the cue ball goes off the board or into a side pocket, then theobject ball does not count to the player who has played it into a fieldpocket.

By thus providing a pool table with a plurality of numbered ieldpocket-s or holes, a game may be played in which there is a largeelement of chance, and various games may be played upen the same boardor the game of pool varied to give variety.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is A game board ofrectangular form in plan view with a plane, unobstructed surface fromend to end and provided with transverse rows of cup-shaped pockets insaid surface adjacent one end of the board, the pockets of each rowbeing in staggered re lation to the pockets of adjacent rows, and eachpocket being of semi-circular form in cross-section to receive ballsrolled over said surface and to hold; said balls with a major portion ofthe balls projecting above the plane of said surface of the board,marginal side and end walls for the board formingy cushions, having anopening at each corner of the board and openings intermediate the endsof the side walls, pockets for all of said openings in such marginalwalls, and balls to be played upon the surface of the board into thepockets in said surface.

In testimony whereof l affix my signature 1n the presence of twowitnesses.

THOR/[AS Mal-UER.

Witnesses:

Louis W. PINGEL, Ronm A. DONALDSON.

